Bench Grass

Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.

Saturday, February 24, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, VII: Briquetage

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Lye: Also known as Caustic Soda This is your top-of-the-page reminder that this "Sacred Spring" series started with a Technic...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

A Meta-Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1947: Capital Cuts and Lost Triumphs

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Pivot to video! There are better renditions of Jerusalem on the web, but the Flying Circus crowd are amazingly good. . . . And:   ...
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Sunday, February 11, 2018

Postblogging Technology, December 1947, II: Dead Presidents

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R_. C_., Vancouver, Canada. Dear Sir: I apologise if this is the last you ever hear of me, but I really feel like I am pushing...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Postblogging Technology, December 1947, I: An Imports-Export Crisis

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The Caribbean theme is developed, a bit, below.  R._C._, Vancouver,  Canada Dear Sir: It seems to be a habit...
Friday, January 26, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, VI: Omen of Sargon, Who Ruled the Universe; Omen of the Inhabitants of Apisal, Whom Naram-Sin Made Prisoner by a Breach in the Wall

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Assyria is perhaps the unique example of a state that revived itself in the early Iron Age, which actually had writing. The case for reviv...
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Friday, January 19, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, V: The Sin of Sargon

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This post comes out of the reading I did for  this one.  I had the vague impression that "Assyrian"-style haruspical bronze live...
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Sunday, January 14, 2018

Postblogging Technnology, November 1947, II: Douglas' Turn is Ugly

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" We may make it --Approaching a strip . . . " R_. C_.,  Vancouver, Canada Dear Sir: Thank you THANK YOU for ta...
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